Muriel Médard is the Cecil H. Green Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT, where she leads the Network Coding and Reliably Communications Group at the Research Laboratory for Electronics at MIT.
From 2002-2007 she served as undergraduate faculty in residence at the MIT dormitories, and was also a member and chair of the MIT Faculty Committee on Student Life. Medard was the chair of the MIT Faculty Committee on Campus Planning. She supervised over 40 master students, over 20 doctoral students, and over 25 postdoctoral fellows.
She has co-founded two companies, CodeOn where she consults, and Steinwurf where is Chief Scientist. Medard has made numerous contributions to the theory and practice of network coding, optical networks, and wireless communications. She holds over fifty US and international patents awarded, the vast majority of which have been licensed or acquired.
She has co-founded two companies, CodeOn where she consults, and Steinwurf where is Chief Scientist. Medard has made numerous contributions to the theory and practice of network coding, optical networks, and wireless communications. She holds over fifty US and international patents awarded, the vast majority of which have been licensed or acquired.
She has served contributed to many IEEE publications, formerly serving as Editor-in-chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications. Medard was editor and guest editor in other publications including the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, as well as the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. In July 2021, Medard became the Editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions in Information Theory.
Medard has received numerous awards and recognitions throughout the years. She has been named the recipient of the 2022 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award for contributions to the theory and practice of network coding, optical networks, and wireless communications.
Medard holds three Bachelor’s degrees (EECS 1989, Mathematics 1989 and Humanities 1991), as well as her M.S. (1991) and Sc.D (1995), all from MIT, and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Technical University of Munich (2020).